Photographic product and process

Claim 1

A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO LAYERS AND INCLUDING A PHOTOSENSITIVE SILVER HALIDE EMULSION LAYER, AN OPAQUE WATER-PERMEABLE LAYER OF A COLLOID IN A SOLID PHASE, AND A RUPUTRABLE CONTAINER HOLDING A LIQUID PROCESSING COPMPOSITION, AND PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER AND SAID OPAQUE COLLOID LAYER BEING SECURED TOGETHER IN SUPERPOSED, CONTACTING RELATION AND SAID CONTAINER BEING LOCATED AT A POSITION FOR RELEASING ITS LIQUID CONTENT UPON THE RUPTURE THEREOF OVER THAT SURFACE OF SAID OPAQUE COLLOID LAYER WHICH IS FURTHEST REMOVED FROM SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER FOR PERMEATION, AT LEAST IN PART, INTO SAID SUPERPOSED OPAQUE COLLOID LAYER AND SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER, SAID LIQUID PROCESSING COMPOSITON COMPRISING A LIQUID SOLVENT CONTAINING AT LEAST AN ORGANIC FILM-FORMING COLLOID, SAID PRODUCT HAVING POSITIONED THEREIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING MATERIAL, INCLUDING A SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPER TRANSPORTABLE BY SAID LIQUID TO SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER AND A SILVER HALIDE SOLVENT ALSO TRANSPORTABLE BY SAID LIQUID TO SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER AND CAPABLE OF FORMING SOLUBLE SILVER COMPLEX WITH UNDEVELOPED SILVER HALIDE, SAID ORGANIC FILMFORMING COLLOID BEING CHARACTERIZED BY ITS ABILITY TO SOLIDIFY UPON THE ABSORPTION OF LIQUID THEREFROM WHEREBY TO PROCIDE A SUBSTANTIALLY TRANSPARENT SOLID COATING ON THE SURFACE OF SAID OPAQUE COLLOID LAYER WITH WHICH THE FILM-FORMING COLLOID IS ADAPTED TO BE BROUGHT INTO CONTACT UPON DISCHARGE OF THE CONTAINER CONTENTS AND THE ABSORPTION OF LIQUID THEREFROM BY SAID SUPERPOSED OPAQUE COLLOID AND PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYERS, SILVER COMPLEX FORMED IN SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER BEING ADAPTED TO BE TRANSPORTED IN SOLUTION THROUGH SAID OPAQUE LAYER AND INTO SAID TRANSPARENT SOLID COATING PROVIDED BY SAID ORGANIC FILM-FORMING COLLOID WHERE SAID SILVER COMPLEX IS PRECIPITATED TO PROVIDE A TRANSFER IMAGE WHICH IS A POSITIVE OF A NEGATIVE LATENT IMAGE FORMED IN SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE LAYER AND WHICH IS VIEWABLE AGAINST SAID OPAQUE LAYER AS A BACKGROUND.